Online Program Notes

I’ve embarked on a small project: to add to my blogroll a new category of links to film screening venues

On “Room 237”, Criticism and Theory

Jonathan Rosenbaum and I caught a screening of the documentary Room 237 in Toronto, but we had to dash off

TIFF 2012

I caught about 30 films at TIFF, and will be writing a piece on the festival for the next issue

Film Studies and Canon Building

The air is filled with the sound of canons! The world of journalistic/cinephile film culture is astir with discussion and

Bologna

My first visit to Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna turned to be a total film festival experience, more so than

Criticism and Context; Jia Zhangke

One of the most intriguing aspects of the Movie Mutations project is that it brought together a number of film

TIFF 2011: The Round-Up

Best-of-Fest: This is not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb & Jafar Panahi, Iran) Three Big Personal Favorites: The Kid with a

“A Ghost at Noon” by Adrian Martin

Raúl Ruiz died this week. Adrian Martin has written a personal, moving and illuminating tribute to him — a 2,500-word

LOLA

Adrian Martin and I are excited to announce the launch of our new Internet film journal LOLA. We’ve worked steadily

Micro-criticism

The Edinburgh International Film Festival is hosting a symposium called Project: New Cinephilia. The event — a conversation about cinephilia,